September 11, 2001 and the start of the
Iraq War in March 2003. However, new
governments have been elected on both sides
of the border since then, making some form of
reengagement not only possible but also necessary.
Preparations for the first meeting between
Presidents Obama and Calderón, as well as for the
renewal of the annual North American summit
process, present key opportunities to place the
goal of fashioning cooperative approaches to the
management of migration on the bilateral and
regional agendas.
!ere are also opportunities for reframing
and refocusing immigration policy efforts by
highlighting immigrant integration as a major
national challenge, as well as by focusing in a
number of ways on undocumented youth and
children. Finally, we consider what Mexico might
do to help reframe the binational policy debate,
and how the incoming U.S. administration
should organize itself to develop and pursue new